Editorial. The need to address bullying as an important component of violence prevention in United States schools. Relationship of bullying and revenge to school shootings; How to control bullying without profiling; Zero tolerance policies; Environmental and social influences.

This article describes the development and evaluation of a bullying prevention program in one large, public elementary school. The program, which was developed based on a collaborative model between school personnel and university consultants, included modification of the school environment,...

This study examined variability in teachers' reported adherence to a school-based violence prevention program, Creating a Peaceful School Learning Environment, and investigated the relations of teacher adherence to teachers' attitudes related to the intervention and students' attitudes about and...

Practices of violence such as physical and verbal aggression, provocations, humiliations and exclusion that occur mainly among young people in schools are named as bullying and the aim of this qualitative-descriptive study was to investigate how this phenomenon is represented by magazines...

Focuses on efforts of schools in Colorado and other states in the United States to launch anti-bullying initiatives, and questions of whether such programs will be effective, in light of the role bullying is thought to play in school shootings. INSET: Don't look to courts for the answers.

The article discusses a report in the journal "Educational Researcher" calling for changes in efforts to address school violence with a broader, cross-disciplinary and evidence-based approach which includes the problem of bullying.